Workstream

Name: Workstream
Address: 521 7th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, US
Telephone: (415) 767-1006
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Workstream is the smarter way to hire and retain hourly workers.

10/28/2026

The Rolling Meadows Little Caesars is one of the oldest Little Caesars locations in Chicagoland, open since 1985. Today, it's run by Larry Godwin and his amazing team.

Larry started his career with Little Caesars in 2014 as a crew member at this very location, just aiming to earn some extra income outside his full-time 9-to-5 job. Little did he know he'd fall in love with the brand, his superiors, and the Little Caesars philosophy.

That love turned into real growth. Larry's efforts led him to an Area Supervisor role, and then an Admin Assistant role with Little Williams Enterprises, all while he continued overseeing the Rolling Meadows location where it all started.

Larry and his team take a lot of pride in serving high-quality products and providing excellent customer service, every single day. Behind the scenes, Workstream helps power the hiring and payroll that keeps a team like this running smoothly.

Congrats, Larry and the whole Rolling Meadows team. Here's to the teams that find their flow and never look back.

10/19/2026

"You truly need to understand what it feels like to fail at something before you can understand success."

Cassie Gerety runs 42 Domino's stores across 350 miles of the Texas Panhandle and Permian Basin, leading about 1,200 team members. She didn't plan for any of it. In high school, working fast food and barely making rent, she went to apply at the restaurant next door, where her friends made better money. The Domino's beside it had a "now hiring" sign out, and she ended up there instead. A few months later, her car broke down and she moved into management. Years of running stores for other owners followed, until she saved up, sold her house, and bought her way into her first store in Sweetwater, Texas. That's the only path in at Domino's: you work the job before you can own one.

"I made horrible choices as a young person," she says. "Horrible. But as you grow and take on a family, you grow up and keep taking on responsibility."

Today, Sweet Pizza, LLC runs on Workstream for hiring, using applicant messaging to reach their ideal candidates.

Cassie now spends much of her time mentoring other women in franchising. "I got you," she still tells people. "What do you need?"

10/12/2026

"I love that I get to onboard people who are usually starting a first job... this job helps them grow and figure out how to be an adult."

Meaghan Campbell has spent more than 30 years on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the last 25 as HR director for Whiting's Foods.

She started at 16 in food service and fell into HR years later when an opening came up. "Oh, HR, that sounds interesting," she remembers.

Now she welcomes teenagers to their first job and teaches them the basics, like showing up on time. One summer, a new hire came to the boardwalk on his day off to see the friends he'd made there. "This is kind of what we're all about," Meaghan says.

That's why she isn't expecting kiosks to take over. "There’s high-tech and there’s high-touch, and we want to be high-touch," she says. Maybe robots will make the cotton candy someday, but Whiting’s Foods on the Boardwalk will always need its people.

When her VP found Workstream at the IAAPA expo, Meaghan was skeptical, since other platforms made a simple job posting require "17 things on different tabs." Workstream was different. "My favorite thing about Workstream is the simplicity of use," she says. "It was nice to be pleasantly surprised."

More than three decades after her own first shift, she's still helping the next 16-year-old find their footing, and maybe their people.

09/22/2026

"It's not who's right or wrong. It's how you handle it that the light shines on."

Stephanie Wiggins is the Director of HR for MPH Dining, which operates 16 Culver's restaurants, with a 17th opening in weeks and nine more planned over the next year and a half. She didn't come up through restaurants. Stephanie spent 14 years in HR across education, a PEO, and food manufacturing before joining MPH Dining, her first time in quick-service, in a role that didn't exist before her. She built the department from scratch, the same way she had once before at a manufacturing company still handwriting paychecks.

"Five minutes into my interview, I knew this was unlike any other place," she says. "They genuinely care about people, and decisions for people always come before profitability."

MPH Dining runs on Workstream for applicant tracking, onboarding, payroll, and benefits, work Stephanie calls the smoothest payroll transition she's ever managed. A mentor's advice from early in her career still guides her: it's not about who's right, it's how you handle it. "People always people," she says lightheartedly. "You have to have real passion for this, or you won't be great at it."

09/18/2026

We are our own roadblocks.

Lisa Mendez, Regional Director of Operations at Sunshine Restaurant Partners, oversees 49 IHOP locations across South Florida. She started at 13 at McDonald's and her mom's sandwich shop in Miami, and has been with Sunshine for 27 years.

For years, the one thing she didn't do was raise her hand, because she didn't think she deserved it. Now she tells people: ask for it, even when you're scared.

"Everything I do is around people. The development of people, the impact that you have on their lives of young people just like myself that started out and maybe they didn't have a direction. They touch these people's lives every day and they don't realize the impact or the ripple effect that it has."

Last year, Lisa launched Elevating Women in Leadership, an internal program to develop women in the company. She became the leader she never had.

Sunshine uses Workstream across 140-plus locations. After a company-wide training webinar, field team feedback was unanimous: zero complaints, even from new hires.

Lisa, thank you for raising your hand.

09/15/2026

"My favorite thing is to watch our employees develop. I really enjoy being able to also be there when they're at their lowest points in their life and I can help them."

Mitch Stewart, now Franchise Administrator and Director of Operations at MK Pizza Partners, started as a crew member in 2012. Jeziree Fernandez, now District Manager, started in 2010. They came up through the same stores, a Little Caesars franchise in the Seattle area.

They know what it looks like to be new, to make mistakes, and to need someone in your corner.

"I've been there. I've done it and I understand what you're going through," Mitch says.

More than a decade later, they still have dinner with former employees.

When a tool shows up for their customers, they notice. "It was so seamless and smooth," Mitch says. "I really appreciated just being able to have the confidence within Workstream to get it done and know that it was going to be done."

Mitch and Jeziree, thank you for always showing up for your team.

09/08/2026

"One of the best things to have as a leader is empathy. And that doesn't mean weakness by any means."

Kelly Nyberg has spent five years building Nyberg's ACE's hiring culture across six hardware stores, a handyman services division, and a workwear shop in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her grandfather started the business in 1958. When COVID hit, she came back to the family business and stepped into the corporate hiring manager role with no HR experience.

Empathy is central to how Kelly leads and how she hires. You never know what somebody's going through. That belief shapes how she interviews and reads candidates.

"You might not know everything about hardware or lawn and garden or grilling or housewares. But if you have those customer service skills and are willing to learn, you're a great worker for us."

Workstream gave her the tools to assess what matters before someone walks in the door: custom questions, SMS conversations, candidate tags. Retention has improved by about 50%.

Kelly, thank you for making empathy part of the job, not just a quality someone lists on their resume.

09/02/2026

"It's not easy, but nothing is easy. If you really love serving people and love connecting with your community, it all comes down to who you bring on board with you and the family you create there."

Zack Sakak's father came to the United States at 15 and eventually built out the Applebee's franchise in North Dakota. Zack grew up working those restaurants and opened Sonic locations with his family. He's been in the brand 13 years, now running four locations in North Dakota and Badlands, a local steakhouse in Minot, ND.

"The best advice I've ever gotten is from my dad," Zack says. "You're really looking for people that share the same values and the same love for the industry. It just makes the biggest difference."

For payroll and onboarding, Zack and his team use Workstream, a partner he describes as refreshing, user-friendly, and backed by a help desk that's "always so responsive."

The defining factor, Zack says, is how much you love it and how much you love serving the community. Thirteen years in, the answer is still yes to both.

08/31/2026

"I had a lot of imposter syndrome. Why am I here? These people have had longer careers, more accomplishments. And so feeling like I've earned a lot of their respect, feeling comfortable that I belong here, that I'm here because people value my opinion. That is probably my biggest accomplishment."

Chris King is the president of King Enterprises, a third-generation family business running 18 Wendy's and 5 KFCs. His grandfather had a handshake deal with Colonel Sanders in the 1960s. His dad built on that foundation. When Chris stepped into leadership, he was consistently the youngest in every room, surrounded by people his dad's age.

"There's nothing I'm going to ask you that I haven't done myself. I understand it. I wouldn't ask you to do something that doesn't make sense."

King Franchises works with Workstream, and Chris says the bar for any vendor is simple: "I've got a lot of vendor partners and very few of them are as good as you guys."

Three generations in, still earning every room. Thank you, Chris.

08/27/2026

"At the end of the day, you close everything down, you clean it up, and you get a fresh start the next day."

That philosophy has carried Dustin Riddle through nearly 30 years inside Sonic Drive-Ins.

He started as a cook at 16, following his father into Sonic. Dustin always told himself he'd follow a different path. "Just kind of started in the business," he says, "and then next thing I know it's 30 years later." Today he's Director of Operations for Great American Hospitality, leading 21 locations across the Carolinas and Virginia.

When things don't go as planned, he turns to baseball. "I always equate it to a pitcher giving up a home run. If they sit there and dwell on it, they're going to give up more. Just focus on the next guest. Make the adjustment and move the team forward."

Workstream joined Great American Hospitality in April 2025. Time to hire dropped from 10 days to 6, and the team could finally afford to be more selective.

Dustin, thirty years of fresh starts. Thank you for showing what they can build.

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